Fin Fang Foom wrote:
I don't look at this as a "line" per se -- I buy the books I think I'll want to read, and ignore the ones I don't.

I agree, although "ideally" I would like to get them all, eventually.  In that context, the only ones I consider priority are Spider-Man and Fantastic Four, though I don't have every volume of those books and I'm in no rush to get them.  Most of the other books, if I get them, I get them, and if I don't, I'm fine with that.  I did pick up the first two Golden Age Marvel Comics books the day they came out, though, and the only other one I can think of that I'm interested enough to do the same is the Atlas-era hero books.

I wonder what it’s like after death.  Prob’ly it’s like it is b’fore birth.  Is it nothing?  Non-existence?  That’s not hard t’understand, but it’s hard for people t’accept.  It’s hard for them to imagine not existing because all of their memories are of their existence, not non-existence.  An’ people ain’t too crazy about the idea of themselves not existing.
- Harvey Pekar, “Short Weekend: A Story About the Cosmic and the Ordinary,” American Splendor #3, 1978.